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Improving your team's on-call experience

Your engineers probably dislike going on-call for your services. Some might even dread it. It doesn't have to be this way. With a few changes to how your team runs on-call, and deals with recurring alerts, you might find your team starting to enjoy it (as unimaginable as that sounds). I wrote this article as a follow-up to Getting over on-call anxiety.

New in StatusGator: Reordering Services

As our public status dashboards have become more popular, so has the ability to customize them. Over the next several weeks, we will be rolling out a series of features that allow more customization of your dashboard. Already we’ve added custom CSS capabilities. Today, we’re rolling out service reordering. Our new dashboard management page has a slimmed-down look.

5 Ways the World of IT Operations Will Shift in 2022 (and Beyond)

The following first appeared on VentureBeat. Despite the economic uncertainty due to the global pandemic, worldwide technology spending in 2021 increased by nearly 9% to $4.2 trillion. The U.S. economy grew sharply across the past three quarters of 2021, leading to stronger consumer spending, higher price inflation, and persistent employee shortages amid the great resignation.

Getting over on-call anxiety

You've joined a company, or worked there a little while, and you've just now realised that you'll have to do on-call. You feel like you don't know much about how everything fits together, how are you supposed to fix it at 2am when you get paged? So you're a little nervous. Understandable. Here are a few tips to help you become less nervous.

Top 10+ Best System Monitoring Software & Tools [2022 Comparison]

It’s virtually impossible to manage today’s complex IT environments at scale without a comprehensive system monitoring solution that allows you to check the health of all your applications and services from a single pane of glass. When your end users are experiencing difficulties, you must have such a tool in place that lets you quickly ascertain and remediate the root cause of the slowdown or error.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Microsoft Teams Dashboard

Join SquaredUp's Adam Kinniburgh and Purdue University's Daniel Parrott as they showcase this sample Microsoft Teams dashboard used by Purdue to visualize key Microsoft Teams usage metrics for their online classrooms. Built using SquaredUp, this dashboard keeps track of the total number of Teams and which are empty, allowing them to pinpoint issues with the data load to create the teams or update issues. The dashboard also monitors for empty class sections to help identify issues with the class selection process.